Beacon Hill spring migrants part one.

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After finishing my student placement in Coalville for the day, I checked out Beacon Hill to see if there were any spring migrants about.
Checking out the lower fields opposite the car park, the only notable bird was a superb looking male Wheatear feeding on piles of brown cattle shite.
Over the next few weeks I will try and check this site out on a regular basis, and see if it produces the same number of spring migrants like Ring Ouzel and Warblers like it did last year.
The only other sighting I had on Beacon Hill was strangely two Llamas feeding in the sheep field next to the Wheatear!

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Skev said…
Always rely on a welshman checking out sheep-fields.
31 March 2008 at 23:48
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